Rise and Growth of Dalit Political Movement in Karnataka: A Critical Study

The privileged Brahmin was treated with high respect and had the superior power in hand and the less privileged Dalits were treated equal to animals and mere slaves. There writing started in the times of Mukti movement and it flourished into various genres in the time of Dalit Panther movement which started in 1970’s with the influence of Black Panther movement from the west. These writings were to break the long silence of the dalits of thousand years they found the space to express their revolt against the social evil imposed on them for centuries. Majority of writers who wrote the brahminical text wrote with a Brahmin touch in order to sustain their mode of living in the society and they occupied the upper positions and leaving the dalits to do the lower job by subjugating them from the top in the form of religion, birth, caste etc. The proposition of the paper will deal with the rise of the political movement in Karanataka as the Dalit movement which was initiated in Maharastra lead to the momentum of initiating other movements in different states.